Feb. 25--Free-falling iron ore prices hit northern Minnesota this week with Magnetation LLC deciding to idle its Keewatin processing plant. The global price of concentrated iron ore was $95 a ton as recently as last June but hit $63.10 on Monday.

Troops and civilians in northern Israel are on heightened alert and Israel has deployed an Iron Dome rocket interceptor unit near the Syrian border. JERUSALEM: An Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria was not its intended target and Israel ...

Miners have been on strike for more than three weeks in Mauritania's northern iron ore hub of Zouerate, in a dispute over wages, their union told AFP on Tuesday. Mohamed Abdallahi, of the General Confederation of Mauritanian Workers, said members ...

The train is coming. That's all anyone is talking about on the southern outskirts of Xinjin county in Sichuan province. From the hole-in-the-wall eatery she has run for 20 years, it takes Li Xi a few minutes to walk over to where the brand new ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) Rare earth project developer Northern Minerals has delayed the timetable for first production from its Browns Range project, in northern Western Australia, to the second half of 2017, from 2016. The ASX-listed ...

By Steve Vickers, In Sweden, there are people who say that you can hear the northern lights. Some say they whoosh like the wind. Others say they crackle like pine needles on a campfire. After a week in the far north of the country, I still ...

Graham DeLaet fired a 1-under-par 70 on Saturday and is in sole possession of second place heading into the final round of the Northern Trust Open taking place in Los Angeles. Retief Goosen made only two pars on the back nine and survived a day of ...